Starfire – Teen Titans

Made for: San Diego Comic Con 2005

Background: My first DC costume!

Journal Entries: Read more at my Starfire tag

Related Costumes: Comic Starfire, Donna Troy, Ame-Comi Poison Ivy

Patterns Used:
KwikSew 3239

Top & Skirt:

Found my purple spandex locally, and used a KwikSew swimming suit pattern for the top, and also for the matching shorts I’m wearing underneath the skirt. The skirt was just a tube of fabric with elastic in the waist. I added a strip of my silver stretch vinyl around the bottom hem of the top.

Armor Pieces:

I found some silver stretch vinyl, and used that to make the collar, armband, gauntlets and belt. For the gauntlets, I made a pattern, then cut out a heavy piece of vinyl and covered that in the lighter-weight silver vinyl. They snap closed. The armband was made the same way, only it velcros. The collar I also made a pattern for, I made it out of the silver vinyl. The collar snaps up the back. I used a plastic tube, covered in my purple spandex, as the trim of the bottom of the collar. Originally I didn’t back the collar pieces in the heavy vinyl like I did all of the other pieces, and it looked a little limp, so later I went back and added some interfacing to the backside to help it have a little more body. For all the little jewels, I first used some wooden pieces painted – later I replaced them christmas ornaments set on wooden bases.

Boots:

For the boots, I bought a pair of boots online that had a similar sole to the cartoon boot. I cut them off from the ankle up, repainted the soles lavender, and then covered the shoe in the spandex, and made a tube of fabric for the upper section of the boots and glued it to the base shoe. (Here’s a short tutorial I did on a similar pair.) I made silver vinyl toppers for those, too. On the interior side at the top, I glued in some of those elastic grippers from a pair of thigh highs to help keep the boots up. They worked great and I’ve never had an issue with them slipping much at all.

Accessories:

I used Ben Nye makeup to paint myself orange, and bought the wig online and cut it.

History:

This was such a fun costume! I wore it several times over the next few years and eventually it went into storage. In 2022, I decided I better shoot this costume on the white backdrop before all of those pleather pieces start to peel and die. So I got it all out, cleaned it up, washed and restyled the wig, and got this shot! I was very happy that as of 2022 all of the pleather pieces were still in good condition, although they’ve definitely got some set in fold wrinkles that aren’t coming out anytime soon. I’m so glad to have this shot on the white backdrop, because who knows how much longer these costume pieces will survive.

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